Pecking Definition

verb

Present participle of peck.

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noun
The act by which something is pecked.
The peckings of hungry chickens.
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The ancient skill of shaping stone into tools, containers, or artworks.

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Other Word Forms of Pecking

Noun

Singular:
pecking
Plural:
peckings

Pecking Sentence Examples

  • She's pecking away on her story— has been, most of the night.

  • She's pecking away on her story— has been, most of the night.

  • This pecking, combined with feather loss from rubbing against the cage bars, can result in almost totally bald birds.

  • High risk of injurious feather pecking and cannibalism, thus beak trimming is often necessary.

  • Many small birds were mobbing the owl, and we watched a Gray Woodpecker attempt to drive it away by pecking at its feet!

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